Sources say Ron Paul signed off on racist newsletters

(I have been saying for a while that Lew Rockwell was the author of the racist articles in the Ron Paul newsletters and here is some confirmation (for what it is worth in an election year with RP still somewhat in the running). As I have also stated, it is even worse if Ron allowed these articles in his newsletter in some kind of attempt to garner political support as well as financial gain and as it turns out that is exactly what he was doing. ““It was playing on a growing racial tension, economic tension, fear of government,’’ the source stated “I’m not saying Ron believed this stuff. It was good copy. Ron Paul is a shrewd businessman.’’” Renae Hathway)

by Muriel Kane, Raw Story

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has consistently denied having written — or even read — the inflammatory racist and anti-gay remarks that went out under his name in newsletters he published in the early 1990s. Although numerous associates agree that Paul does not hold racist views, however, it appears that he may have known more about the racist articles than he has been willing to admit.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that three people with first-hand knowledge of Paul’s operations say “he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.”

“It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. … He would proof it,’’ former company secretary Renae Hathway told the Post.

According to these sources, the main author of the racist passages was Lew Rockwell, who was then the vice president of Paul’s company.

[read the rest, here]

SOPA, PIPA, H.R. 1981 and Megaupload: Legislating and Enforcing the Fascist State

by Scott Creighton

SOPA and PIPA are two of the most widely misunderstood pieces of legislation to recently come down the D.C. corporatist pipeline as of late (later I will write about that and the new pending legislation submitted by the same senator). Meanwhile, the recent shuttering of Megaupload and the subsequent arrest of Kim Dotcom is being portrayed as something that it clearly isn’t.

But what it is, is much worse.

The point is, you aren’t getting the full story on any of these matters even on so-called dissident conservative, libertarian, or “progressive” sites. So the question becomes, “why?”

Republican Debate Tampa: “The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.”

Russia Today Publishes Misinformation About Iranian Response to EU Sanction Plan

by Scott Creighton

Russia Today is reporting (without providing a link or a direct quote) that the Fars News Agency, a so-called “semi-official” news agency in Iran, has stated that a senior Iranian official has made the statement that Iran “would definitely” close the Strait of Hormuz if an EU oil embargo disrupts their oil exports.

“Tensions in the Gulf could reach a breaking point as a senior Iranian official said Iran would “definitely” close the Strait of Hormuz if an EU oil embargo disrupted the export of crude oil, the semi-official Fars news agency reports.” Russia Today

This statement by Russia Today is misleading on several fronts.

So the Last Will be First: Election Rigging Pattern in America Inc.

by Scott Creighton

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”  Mathew 20:16

How are selected presidents currently marketed to the U.S. population through the artifice of the election process in a way that leaves most with the comfortable illusion that we still have a democratic process that still answers to the will of the people?

What history shows us is that Newt Gingrich did not win South Carolina as much as Barack Obama has been selected to occupy the White House for 4 more years. So who was the big winner in South Carolina yesterday? Barack Obama and his neoliberal bosses who apparently need his special brand of left cover for 4 more years.

Newt Gingrich will win the Republican nomination after a close race with either Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney and then he will lose to Barack Obama in the general election of 2012. How do I know this? It’s already happened. Twice.

Allow me to explain.

Adler and Block: Proposed Mossad Assassination of Obama and the “Anti-Semite” Smear Campaign in America

by Scott Creighton

A publisher in Atlanta, Andrew Adler of the Atlanta Jewish Times, recently wrote an opinion piece in his paper (What Would You Do?) which proposed the Israeli assassination of a seated U.S. president in order to defend Israel from nuclear weapons that Iran does not currently have and is not currently developing (according to the NIEs of 2007 and 2010)

Adler’s Jan. 13th 2012 article puts his 3,500 or so readers in the unenviable position of Israel’s Prime Minister facing what he seems to think is the inevitable destruction of Israel at the hands of the Syrians, Hezbollah, and Iran and asked them “What Would They Do?”: strike Hezbollah (killing civilians), strike Syria (killing civilians), or have Mossad agents already in the U.S.(his words, not mine) kill the president of the United States because he backed off a provocative missile defense drill, Austere Challenge 12,with Israel off Iran’s coastline?

SOPA & PIPA Updates

by Scott Creighton

Harry Reid announced that SOPA and PIPA would be shelved for now until a “compromise” is reached.

Of about 40 co-sponsors for the Pipa bill, a handful withdrew their support on Wednesday, as thousands of websites participated in a co-ordinated online protes. BBC

One of the creators of the world wide web denounced SOPA (after the fact) claiming that it was detrimental to human rights.

“If you’re in America then you should go and call somebody or send an email to protest against these (censorship) bills because they have not been put together to respect human rights as is appropriate in a democratic country.”  Berners-Lee

US Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter to the internet and those who chose to participate in a largely symbolic blackout protest. Wyden has been opposed to SOPA from the start.

Today thousands of websites have chosen to voluntarily go offline or modify their home pages with public service information.  Some have called this a stunt.  I say it’s a brave and poignant reminder that we can’t take the Internet for granted…

… Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet.  They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don’t.  They are a step towards an Internet in which online innovators need lawyers as much or more than they need good ideas.  And they are a step towards a world in which Americans have less of a voice to argue for a free and open Internet around the world. Ron Wyden

The United States has forced the arrest of a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over copyright claims. 37 year-old Kim Dotcom, head of Megaupload was arrested today by authorities in New Zealand on charges of violating American copyright laws. They took nearly 100 million in assets from Dotcom and his associates while Dotcom himself has retained the services of a lawyer who defended Bill Clinton and Enron both.

Bob Bennett, the man who defended Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, was on Thursday retained to represent Megaupload.

Speaking to the Guardian, Bennett said: “All I am at liberty to say at this stage is that we will be vigorously defending the case.”

The attorney’s former clients also include collapsed energy giant Enron, and former defence secretaries Clark Clifford and Casper Weinberger. Guardian

USPS “Clock Tosser” Video: Is This a Staged Event to Overshaddow the FedEx Embarrassment?

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: see updates at the end of the article

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With so much money and profit on the line when they push to fully privatize the entire postal service, do you think that this new USPS Clock Tosser video was staged to overshadow the FedEx package tossing video that came out a month ago?

I think it was and here’s why.

Corporatist Shills at Prison Planet Deride Keystone Pipeline Rejection in Support of Big Government Eminent Domain Seizures of Private Property

by Scott Creighton

The “libertarians” over at Prison Planet didn’t lift a finger to help kill off the “Big Guberment” SOPA Bill that seems to have been shelved at least for now no thanks to the “Info Warriors”.

In yet another pro-corporatist move it seems they are a bit peeved that Obama has decided to take another look at the Keystone Pipeline project which would have taken their blessed private property away from land owners via eminent domain and handed it over to a CANADIAN mega corporation so they could pump oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

So much for the respect of private property and limited government.

Summers Under Consideration to Lead World Bank When Zoellick’s Term Ends

from Hans Nichols, Bloomberg News

President Barack Obama may put his mark on the World Bank by nominating Lawrence Summers, his former National Economic Council director, to lead the bank when Robert Zoellick’s term expires later this year, according to two people familiar with the matter.

While a Summers nomination may draw criticism from some Democrats who disagree with his past stances on deregulating the financial industry, he has support inside the administration from top officials, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and current NEC Director Gene Sperling, said one of the people.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also being considered, along with other candidates, said the other person. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.

[read the rest, here]

Western intervention in Arab Spring could end in ‘very big war,’ Russia warns

from Ellen Barry, New York Times

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warned Wednesday that outside encouragement of antigovernment uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa could lead to “a very big war that will cause suffering not only to countries in the region, but also to states far beyond its boundaries.”

Mr. Lavrov’s annual news conference was largely devoted to a critique of Western policies in Iran and Syria, which he said could lead to a spiral of violence.

His remarks came on the heels of a report on state-controlled television that accused the American ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, who has been in Moscow for less than a week, of working to provoke a revolution here. Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, at an impromptu meeting with prominent editors, also unleashed an attack on the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy, which he said was serving American interests.

[read the rest, here]

AE Blackout in Protest of SOPA and PIPA (ಠ_ಠ)

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE:  ಠ_ಠ  seems we aren’t blacked out after all. hmmm  ಠ_ಠ

UPDATE: well, now we’re blacked out again.

American Everyman will join the online protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act by blacking out the site from 8 am till 8 pm today January 18th, 2012.

Other sites that are blacked out: Reddit, Wikipedia, Raw Story, Destructoid, Minecraft, 9/11 Blogger, Boing Boing and about 7,000 others.

Meanwhile, in support of Chris Dodd (chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America) and the US Chamber of Commerce…

… libertarian leaning websites (libertarian meaning those who support the hastened onset of pure corporatism in America under the guise of “liberty”) like Intel Hub, AntiWar, Prison Planet, Lew Rockwell, Wayne Madson, Above Top Secret, Rense, What Really Happened, End the Lie, and Ron Paul’s and David Icke’s site are up and running business as usual. I guess those revenue streams are more important than real freedom for us actual dissent sites.

Other social and (center) left leaning dissent sites (some real some not so real) After Downing Street, Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, DailyKos, Democracy NOW!, Twitter, Facebook, Truthdig, Truthout, Counterpunch, and Boiling Frogs all chose to remain open for business today so as not to miss out on that all important marketing buck.

U.S. Joint Operation with Israel Postponed: Did the Globalists Just Blink?

by Scott Creighton

It is being reported (here, here,  here and here ) that the United States has announced that it is going to postpone “Austere Challenge 12”, the US-Israel joint-missile defense drill slated to start up in April. According to most reports the U.S. has backed off of the potentially inflammatory drills due to current instability of the region and the lack of evidence of Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon. But there may be more to it than meets the eye of the average MSM stenographer.

Was this run-up to WWIII simply a game of imperial brinksmanship? Were the NATO powers trying to force Russia and China to allow a Libyan type sanction against Syria by threatening all out world war starting in Iran? Did we blink first or did the major powers who have been defending Syria agree to some backroom deal trading their tacit support of a R2P bombing of Syria for an agreement to leave Iran alone for now?

Trailer for Ron Paul’s Favorite Movie

Atlas Shrugged Part 2 (believe it or not)

When the free markets shit all over a movie praising the free markets, all that’s left to do is cut costs … and make another movie praising the free markets.

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Chomsky on Ron Paul’s Libertarian Policies: “This is Just Savagery”… “a Call for Corporate Tyranny”

This is what happens when a Paulbot runs over to a liberal event hoping to get some dissatisfied democrats on board the “Revolution” Express. He gets a dose of reality.

Ron Paul is anything but an anti-establishment candidate. If corporatism is the problem then Ron Paul and his neoliberal libertarian agenda is nothing more than a concerted effort to make young naive voters beggars to their own demise.

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